Small Palafoxia

These volunteer in the rocky soil at my Spring Branch house and bloom in the fall attracting numerous butterflies. They dont get any wat...Read Moreer from me. I try to avoid them when weed eating the bloom stalks of the wild grass that grow in this same limestone rock and hard hill country soil.

Large groups of these can be seen along Highway 281 between Spring Branch and Blanco Texas. Also along FM 306 near 281. Gorgeous, light...Read More, and airy. Very striking and pretty.

I was in east Texas digging up a plant and as an after thought pulled up two of these plants. The next day I was in the process of takin...Read Moreg them out of a bucket of water to plant them and noticed 5 butterfly catapillers on them. Right now I'm assuming they were pearly crescenspots.

This volunteered in my gardens. I didn't know what it was at first but then flowered and then I stumbled upon it here at DG. The plant is...Read More long and stringy so would do well with other plants that would help support it but the flowers are petite and a nice shade of pink. In the county, they grow in full sun (not much choice) but in my yards, the front got afternoon sun and in the back, got morning sun. Not much difference in the different settings.